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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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“No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)
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https://www.museabrugge.be/en/collection/work/id/0000_gro0350_i
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury
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Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)
From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):
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#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #song #folksong #16thcentury #earlymodern
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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:stargif: 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑩𝒚𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒚 𝑨𝒖𝒈𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉: 𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒅𝒐 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒍𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒐́ 𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒐 :stargif:
Dicen que el amor no conoce límites… pero Lord Byron los cruzó todos.
Y pagó el precio.En la Inglaterra del siglo XIX, donde la moral pública era tan rígida como hipócrita, el nombre de Byron lo era todo.
Poeta brillante, aristócrata, rebelde, admirado y deseado.
Pero detrás de su fama y su genio se escondía una historia que terminaría destruyéndolo socialmente: su relación con Augusta Leigh, su media hermana.Byron y Augusta no se criaron juntos.
Apenas se conocieron en la infancia, y ese distanciamiento fue, según muchos biógrafos, el caldo de cultivo perfecto para lo que vendría después.
Cuando se reencontraron ya adultos, la conexión fue inmediata y devastadora.
Para Byron, Augusta no era solo familia: era refugio, comprensión y espejo.
La única persona que entendía su carácter extremo, su melancolía, su furia creativa.Las cartas entre ambos revelan una intimidad imposible de ocultar.
Byron hablaba de su relación con una mezcla peligrosa de culpa y orgullo.
En una de ellas dejó una frase que lo resume todo:
“Es mi mayor culpa, pero también mi mayor felicidad.”El escándalo no tardó en llegar.
Los rumores comenzaron a circular por los salones de Londres, susurrados primero, gritados después.
En un intento desesperado por silenciar las habladurías, Byron se casó con Annabella Milbanke, una mujer respetable, racional y profundamente religiosa.
El matrimonio fue un desastre desde el inicio.Annabella no tardó en sospechar.
Descubrió cartas, comentarios velados, silencios demasiado elocuentes.
Cuando comprendió la verdad, no hubo marcha atrás.
La separación fue inmediata y brutal.
La alta sociedad, que antes idolatraba a Byron, le dio la espalda.
Pasó de ser el poeta más admirado de Inglaterra al hombre más escandaloso y repudiado del país.En 1816, Byron hizo lo inevitable: abandonó Inglaterra para siempre.
Nunca volvió.
Nunca volvió a ver a Augusta.
Pero ella nunca dejó de estar presente.Su sombra recorre toda su obra posterior.
Especialmente en Manfred, un poema dramático donde el protagonista vive atormentado por un amor prohibido, culpable e imposible de redimir.
No es una metáfora sutil.
Es una confesión literaria.
Augusta se convierte en la figura de la “compañera perfecta”: alguien que compartía su sangre y, según Byron, su misma naturaleza maldita.“Tú, que fuiste la única que no me abandonó cuando el mundo me dio la espalda.”
El escándalo dejó víctimas colaterales.
Una de las más trágicas fue Elizabeth Medora Leigh, la cuarta hija de Augusta.
Muchos historiadores sostienen que era, en realidad, hija de Byron.
Nunca se pudo probar, pero la sospecha la persiguió toda su vida.
Creció marcada por el rumor, por el estigma, por ser considerada el fruto de un pecado imperdonable para la sociedad victoriana.
Su existencia fue descrita por cronistas de la época como una auténtica tragedia romántica, más cruel que cualquier poema de su supuesto padre.Augusta, a diferencia de Byron, no huyó.
Se quedó en Inglaterra, cargando con el peso del silencio, la sospecha y la ruina social.
Vivió el resto de sus días apartada, señalada, pagando un precio que rara vez se menciona cuando se habla del mito de Byron.Mientras tanto, él transformó su condena en leyenda.
Vivió en Italia, luchó y murió en Grecia, convertido en símbolo de libertad y rebeldía.
Pero jamás se liberó de la culpa.
Augusta fue su amor más profundo… y su herida más duradera.Es fascinante cómo estas historias —Alejandro y Hefestión, Sarah Ellen y Byron— muestran tres destinos distintos nacidos de una misma fuerza: el amor.
Gloria, miedo, condena.
En el caso de Byron, la pasión no lo elevó ni lo salvó.
Lo expulsó de su mundo para siempre.Porque hay amores que no solo rompen normas.
Rompen vidas.▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣▣
#lordbyron #augustaleigh #amorprohibido #historiareal #escandalohistorico #romanticismo #sigloxix #literaturayvida #pasionesocultas #ecosdelpasado
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“When I Roved, a Young Highlander”, illustrated by Currier & Ives, NY
SCENE: Currier & Ives offices, mid/late-19th century
CURRIER: Remember, Lord Byron was mad, bad, & dangerous to know
IVES: Right – I’ll give him a bugle, a mini-kilt, & a shotgun
CURRIER: 👍5/5
https://www.visitpham.org/objects/263199
#Scottish #literature #poetry #art #illustration #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury #highlands
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“Like Burns, Byron knew how earthy values crossed social strata. But by Byron’s time, polite society was even more thoroughly committed to grinding down public festivities in fairs, sports and open air gatherings. Byron was a shock for polite, well-educated readers. He horrified his public.”
—Prof Alan Riach on Burns, Byron, & overlapping traditions
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/15987226.aristocratic-lord-byron-shares-ploughman-burns/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Byron #LordByron #RobertBurns #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!
In you let the minions of luxury rove,
Restore me the rocks where the snowflake reposes,
Though still they are sacred to freedom and love:
Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,
Round their white summits though elements war;
Though cataracts foam ’stead of smooth-flowing fountains,
I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.—George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Lachin Y Gair”
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romanticism
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Byron declared that he was “half a Scot by birth, and bred / A whole one”. To what extent should we privilege such a claim? In what ways did Byron engage with a Scottish poetic heritage, if at all?
—Prof Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, 2022
Online via Project MUSE (institutional subscription required)2/5
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/article/860879
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred
A whole one, and my heart flies to my head,——from “Don Juan”, Canto X, by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The great Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron – Lord Byron – was born #OTD, 22 Jan, 1788
A 🎂 🧵
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Musical Interlude: Here's another long-form video to play while you're doing something else, and it's another Berlioz symphony. This was written at the encouragement of Paganini and is based on a poem by Lord Byron, so it's got crazy Romantic cred.
The four movements depict various scenes in Italy witnessed by Byron's Childe Harold: A scene in the mountains, a march of pilgrims, a serenade by a mountaineer, and finally, an orgy of bandits. (Hey, it's Berlioz AND Byron, what do you expect?)
"Harold en Italie," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NC4E5RXik&t=35s
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #LordByron #NiccoloPaganini #Symphony #Romanticism
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more"
-Lord Byron
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Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein, as she, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori are looking for something to do while trapped indoors on a rainy afternoon.
Hilarious comedy sketch by the always excellent Eleanor Morton (with Christian Brighty).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugBt-cs-3U
#EleanorMorton #ChristianBrighty #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #Romanticism #PercyShelley #LordByron
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#LordByron's daughter
Her mother #AnneMilbanke insisted Ada have an education rooted in #science and #mathematics
That led her on a lifepath where she wound up in cahoots with #CharlesBabbage, geeking out with him over the potential for his invention, the #AnalyticalEngine, a mechanical #computer
And this is how Ada because the world's first computer #programmer
And in her writing is found the world's first practical prediction of
And rejection of
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Cooped up in a villa in cold rainy Switzerland
So #LordByron challenges his guests to a ghost story writing contest
Mary Shelley was a teenager at the time and recently lost a baby soon after birth
I think that's a crucial detail about her story's inspiration
I think anyone else would write sock'em punch'em fight'em horror
But Mary Shelley's story was so different, and so seminal about all the #scifi and #horror to come
Because it was about the horror of *creating* life
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
-- Lord Byron -
Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #LeonardCohen #music #song
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Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)
From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):
2/4
#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #folksong
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 201 years ago #OTD, 19 April 1824
Byron included this poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
1/4
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism
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“Under the leadership of Candace Reilly, manager of Special Collections, Drew has successfully brought two major collections online: the unfinished monograph of Dr. Betty T. Bennett, a leading #MaryShelley scholar, and the broader Byron Society Collection, which contains realia related to the Romantic poet #LordByron.” #Archives
https://about.jstor.org/case-studies/drew-university-uses-jstor-digital-stewardship-services/
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i find all of this extraordinary:
#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"
the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-
humanity creating artificial life
in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron
the father of #AdaLovelace
who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-
humanity creating an artificial mind
something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:
the artistic and technological mothers of our age
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995
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an interesting connection:
it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace
her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI
she rejected it
her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique
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What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?
One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?
#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"
Written as a *teenager*
A teenager who had recently lost a baby
I think that's key
Horror not from taking life
But creating life
She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain
The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest
I think she won
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